#(that gil-galad just has a giant statue of celegorm hanging around in his gardens)

[wethecelestial]

just saw someone point out how weird it is that the statue of the elf and the dog in lindon in trop (who i assumed was luthien bc like...who else) has a star of feanor on its chest

which like. i mean obviously the star is there bc somebody just didn't think this through beyond "oh this looks cool." BUT i think it is very funny to imagine that in the trop parallel universe, instead of becoming cautionary tales about hubris and ghost stories that parents use to scare their children into behaving, the feanorians have just become like. completely divorced from their political and historical motivations and the devastating consequences of their actions on people's actual lives and are instead now just like: Thee Fashionable Aesthetic. fashion designers sticking an eight-pointed star on everything to show that they're EDGY and PROVOCATIVE and NOT LIKE OTHER ELVES. showing up to elf school with the star of feanor on your shirt is the equivalent of that one kid in high school who always wore a che guevara shirt to class and told your teacher that they didn't do the homework because They Aren't Gonna Be Part Of The System, Man,

#anyways this is a joke. do not think about it too hard bc also if u do it gets very bleak and depressing very fast lol #the silmarillion #i just think it's so delightful to think about all these little second age elven children in their teenage rebellion phases like #ugh mom you don't GET it NO ONE GETS IT feanor was COOL and RIGHT #all those poor elven parents. ur kid starts to get kind of interested in smithing and then all of a sudden they're swearing oaths of #vengeance when their siblings take their stuff without asking and telling you that they don't even WANT to sail west because #the valar are STUPID and MEAN #blasting the noldolante at all hours while they do angsty teenage rebellion sulking up in their rooms #also tbc i don't think this is luthien w a fashionable little feanorian star on her lol but only because the alternative #(that gil-galad just has a giant statue of celegorm hanging around in his gardens) #is WAY funnier.